Bug#381263: [RFP] bug #381263, gyachi
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Eddy Petrior wrote:
>> Hello,
>
>> I just came across this application and was interested about the
>> almost full yahoo protocol support.
>
>> I am going to take a look over it and I shall decide if I'll package it.
>
>
> This doesn't look good at all on the first look, I took the source
> from sourceforge and unpacked it.
>
> What I found doesn't look good on first sight:
>
> eddy@bounty ~/usr/src/gyachi/gyachi-1.0.5 $ find . -type f -exec
> file {} \; | grep -v -E
> '(ASCII|GIF|JPEG|ISO-8859|gettext|MPEG|pixmap|text|message)'
> ./codecs/tsd32.dll: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI)
> Intel 80386 32-bit
> ./codecs/tssoft32.acm: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (DLL)
> (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
> ./gyvoice/AUTHORS: empty
> ./sounds/yahoomail.raw: data
> ./sounds/buddon.raw: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
> ./sounds/pm.raw: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
> ./sounds/other.raw: data
> ./sounds/buddoff.raw: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
> ./sounds/buzz.raw: data
> ./sounds/reject.raw: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
>
>
> To explain, the AUTHORS file is empty, although the source code
> files seem to have the right format (I have looked in a few files).
> There are a couple of codecs that are in the source and which have
> no source. Not sure if those can be replaced with something free.
> Although the project says GNU GPL on the Trove Map, the text of the
> license is not in the package.
>
>
> The raw files there don't bother me since they can be removed and
> replaced by free equivalents or something in that area.
>
> What I am most concerned is the codecs and the fact that the code
> seems to be maintained at the edge of functionability and it looks
> like the kind of source that comes from people that do not know/care
> about free as in freedom, but about free as in beer.
Oh, yes, I forgot about these:
eddy@bounty ~/usr/src/gyachi/gyachi-1.0.5 $ find . -name '*wine*'
./gyvoice/wineacm.h
./gyvoice/wine
./gyvoice/wine/winestring.h
./gyvoice/wine/winerror.h
It seems to need wine to work and that would mean to be tided to
just on architecture, namely i386.
- --
Regards,
EddyP
=============================================
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFF2rylY8Chqv3NRNoRAg3qAKCy+ZAvyrJExqNd1fqoZl/uStvJ9wCfXcDX
xAZOoSHKoVBv1aPbIiIWk/0=
=eCsh
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: